Sometimes you just don’t give a damn anymore. Possibly the only thing worse than designer’s block is designer’s apathy: that sinking feeling you get when you realize that you just don’t care about this particular piece of work anymore is disheartening. The dread of going back to it is paralyzing. There are many reasons you can stop caring about your work. Maybe you’ve just done the same thing too many times in a row. Maybe your client is...
“Have you ever thought of starting your own business?” Jack asked me during a phone call in early 2018. “No,” I replied. Of course, the answer was “no.” Why would I have ever thought of starting my own business? No one in my immediate family had a business, and my parents didn’t push it. I was told to get an education to secure a good job, not create something I would own myself. Also, my career to that...
About The Author Liran Cohen is a full-stack developer, constantly looking to learn how to make fast and accessible websites for humans and robots alike. More about Liran ↬[1] This article showcases a case study of Bookaway’s landing page performance. We’ll see how taking care of the props we send to Next.js pages can make loading times and Web Vitals better. I know what you are thinking. Here’s another article about reducing JavaScript dependencies and the bundle size sent...
Search Engine Land’s daily brief features daily insights, news, tips, and essential bits of wisdom for today’s search marketer. If you would like to read this before the rest of the internet does, sign up here[1] to get it delivered to your inbox daily. Good morning, Marketers, and happy Cinco de Mayo to those who celebrate it! On Monday, some in the SEO community were discussing whether links to Google search results within featured snippets[2] were something that...
About The Author Tobias Günther is the co-founder of Tower, the popular Git desktop client that helps more than 100,000 developers around the world to be more productive with … More about Tobias ↬[1][2] No matter how experienced you are, mistakes are an inevitable part of software development. But we can learn to repair them! And this is what we’ll be looking at in this two-part series: how to undo mistakes using Git. Working with code is a risky...
A new integration between Dynamics 365, Microsoft’s customer data platform, and Microsoft Advertising is now available, the company announced[1] Tuesday at its Microsoft Business Applications Summit. The integration enables advertisers to use their customer segments from Dynamics 365 Customer Insights to reach users in the Microsoft Search Network and Microsoft Audience Network via customer match targeting. Customer match is now available in more markets. Alongside the announcement of the new integration, Microsoft also revealed that customer match...
Search Engine Land’s daily brief features daily insights, news, tips, and essential bits of wisdom for today’s search marketer. If you would like to read this before the rest of the internet does, sign up here[1] to get it delivered to your inbox daily. Good morning, Marketers, and where does your ad money go? That’s what the Association of National Advertisers is trying to find out. The group is currently looking for consultants to help them figure out...
Microsoft Advertising will expand phrase match to include broad match modifier traffic, the company announced[1] Tuesday. The change, which will start in mid-May, is to “simplify keywords and improve your relevancy when reaching customers,” the announcement reads. This new treatment for phrase match will bring the platform in line with Google Ads’ updated phrase match[2], which rolled out in February. Note: Microsoft will release a full blog post with more details about this tomorrow, May 5, 2020....
About The Author Drew is a Staff Engineer specialising in Frontend at Snyk, as well as being a co-founder of Notist and the small content management system Perch. Prior to this, … More about Drew ↬[1][2][3][4] In this episode, we’re starting our new season of the Smashing Podcast with a look at the future of CSS. What new specs will be landing in browsers soon? Drew McLellan talks to expert Miriam Suzanne to find out. In this episode, we’re...
Spring and fresh designs are in the air. This month, it’s obvious that designers are feeling creative with new and interesting concepts that range from a new style for cards, homepage experimentation with multiple entry points or calls to action, and risky typography options. Here’s what’s trending in design this month. 1. “Flat” Cards Card-style design elements that allow users to click through to other content aren’t new, but the design of these cards is fresh and interesting. Rather than...
This is your last chance to save up to 20% on expert-level search marketing tactics that can help you generate more awareness, traffic, and conversions: SMX Advanced Super Early Bird rates[1] end this Saturday, May 8! Attending SMX Advanced has never been this affordable… or this easy. No plane ticket, no hotel, no time out of the office. Secure your $199 All Access pass now and join us online, June 15-16, to unlock 40+ expert-level sessions, forward-thinking...
Search Engine Land’s daily brief features daily insights, news, tips, and essential bits of wisdom for today’s search marketer. If you would like to read this before the rest of the internet does, sign up here[1] to get it delivered to your inbox daily. Good morning, Marketers, and let’s chat data, Measuring your website’s performance can help you gather insights on what’s important to your audience, how they’re finding your content and whether that content is actually surfacing...
About The Author Mathias (Matt) Biilmann is CEO of Netlify, a company he co-founded in 2014 and today is one of the fastest growing web development platforms. He has been … More about Mathias ↬[1][2] Web-oriented databases, frameworks like Nuxt and Next.js, and even frameworkless approaches are evolving the Jamstack, but the core principles are more powerful than ever. It’s been five years since I first presented the idea of the Jamstack architecture[3] at SmashingConf in San Francisco 2016,...
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Every day design fans submit incredible industry stories to our sister-site, Webdesigner News. Our colleagues sift through it, selecting the very best stories from the design, UX, tech, and development worlds and posting them live on the site. The best way to keep up with the most important stories for web professionals is to subscribe […] The post Popular Design News of the Week: April 26, 2021 – May 2, 2021 first appeared...
We’re rounding up the week with a fun quiz for anyone who loves fonts. You’ve seen these typefaces used in hundreds of designs — from presidential campaigns, to corporate branding — but do you know who crafted those curves? We’ll start off with an easy one: Do you know who designed Futura?Powered by WPeMatico...
Bing has added aggregated ratings, expert reviews, product specifications and the ability to compare historic prices across sellers to its shopping search engine, the company announced[1] Thursday. Examples of Bing Shopping results featuring aggregated and expert ratings. Image: Bing. Clicking on the details within a shopping result takes the user to Bing’s detail page for that product (shown below). There, users can compare buying options, check out the price history, see excerpts from expert reviews and view product...
It’s common to hear “content is king” in the SEO industry. Although I agree with that statement, it should not be applied cart blanche for every single site in every single situation. In fact, there are cases in which adding too much low-value content can have the opposite effect for SMBs and local businesses. The situation. Last year, Sterling Sky worked with a personal injury lawyer client in Florida that wasn’t ranking very well for some of...
Search Engine Land’s daily brief features daily insights, news, tips, and essential bits of wisdom for today’s search marketer. If you would like to read this before the rest of the internet does, sign up here[1] to get it delivered to your inbox daily. Good morning, Marketers, let’s talk about the cycle of spam and why some of you may be led down the wrong path without even knowing. In the newsletter items below you will read about...
Do you need a little inspiration boost? Well, then our new collection of wallpapers is for you. Designed with love by the community for the community, the wallpapers are available with and without a calendar for May 2021. We always try our best to challenge your creativity and get you out of your comfort zone. In all these years we’ve been running it, our monthly wallpapers challenge[1] has turned out to be the perfect occasion to do...
This week, in a move like something from a particularly eventful episode of The Office, popular project management app company Basecamp banned political and societal discussion in the company’s internal communications. In a post[1] that has been revised for “clarification,” the company’s co-founder Jason Fried listed six rules for employees: No societal or political discussions at work; No more ‘paternalistic’ benefits; No more committees; No more lingering on past decisions; No more 360 reviews; No forgetting what...
When advertisers upload a customer list, Google will now show them the estimated match rate (the percentage of the list that is usable with Customer Match[1]) the company announced[2] Thursday. Match rate data is also be available for previously uploaded customer lists as well. The estimated match rate is shown after advertisers upload a customer list. Image: Google. Improving your match rate. To get the most out of your customer lists and increase your match rate, Google recommends...
30-second summary: Third-party data is being phased out by big tech, making first-party data indispensable First-party data is willingly provided by users, helping you build a consumer profile Internet users are cautious about providing their data but will do if rewarded Tracking pixels, CRM platforms, surveys, and encouraging interaction and registrations are all effective ways to capture first-party data First-party data must be used responsibly, repaying the trust placed in a business by consumers When doing business online, data is arguably the...
Earnings reports released on Wednesday show that Facebook nearly doubled its Q1 earnings[1] compared to last year. Revenue from advertising was up 146% compared to 2020 while daily active users only increased 8%. The increase was driven largely by an uptick in ad prices, according to the CFO outlook commentary on the earnings report: “We are pleased with the strength of our advertising revenue growth in the first quarter of 2021, which was driven by a 30%...
About The Author Addy Osmani is an engineering manager working on Google Chrome. His team focuses on speed tools and frameworks, helping keep the web fast. Devoted to the … More about Addy ↬[1] Images have also been a key part of the web. They communicate ideas instantly, but they are also a lot heavier than text to load. This means that it’s essential to get loading and displaying them right, if you want to give your users...
